Political idolatry in 2016
The reaction to the “Ted Cruz has five mistresses” story is bringing out the worst of the Internet. Donald Trump supporters are clinging to conspiracy theories about Cruz’ jacket, while Cruz fans are calling Cruz “sent from God.” Angry Marco Rubio supporters are cackling with glee at all this and taking a “hands off” approach to the Cruz-Trump, whilst occasionally tossing fireballs at both candidates.

Emory Students Respond To Denunciations Of Trump Chalking With MORE TRUMP CHALKING
Last week, a group of about 50 students at Emory University claimed that at an outbreak of pro-Donald Trump sidewalk chalk around campus was “triggering,” racist and damaging to their psychological well-being. Emory president James Wagner then legitimized the complaints, describing words such as “Vote Trump” and “Build the wall” – chalked on cement – as “perceived intimidation.”

Cruz and the Convention Chess Game
Armed with newfound, if tepid, support from unlikely sources over the past few weeks, Ted Cruz has touted himself as a Republican uniter whose campaign represents a broad and ideologically diverse spectrum of the party.

How to Hack an Election
Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time.

Three ways a contested GOP convention might look
There are three ways the Republican National Convention could go if Donald Trump isn’t able to secure enough delegates to win the nomination outright. The first is a compromise with either Trump or Ted Cruz agreeing to support the other, if there’s no way the other can get the nomination at a contested convention. The second is chaos and claims of a corrupt bargain, if one of the two wins the nomination at the convention without the blessing of the other. The third is having a completely different candidate end up taking the mantle. All of these have happened at different times during America’s history and almost all of them happened to the American Right.

Sanders to Charities: Drop Dead
From a 1981 New York Times story, revealing Bernie Sanders as the full totalitarian he is underneath his “democratic” socialism

Sanders wins most delegates at Clark County convention
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders scored a surprise victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday at the Clark County Democratic Convention, where Sanders won the largest number of delegates a month after losing the Nevada caucuses.

Gun Rights

Last handgun ban in an American jurisdiction struck down
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is part of U.S. sovereign territory, but it bans handguns, bans importing handguns into the commonwealth and limits possession of any guns by non-citizens, including lawful permanent residents.

Hide the Decline

Environment &
“Green Energy”

State Attorneys General to Target Global Warming “Deniers”
Sixteen attorneys general have banded together to go after oil companies and utilities who they claim have committed fraud by downplaying the idea of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. They are going to investigate claims that ExxonMobile and other fossil fuel companies knew about the dangerous effects of global warming and hid the facts from the public.

Yale’s Case against Montague Looks Shaky
Max Stern, the lawyer for the expelled Yale basketball captain Jack Montague, has spoken out, announcing that he will sue Yale on behalf of Montague in April, and clarifying some details in the case, including a very surprising one: that the aggrieved female did not file the sexual misconduct complaint. In his telling, Montague had sex with the woman four times and the woman says only the fourth time was non-consensual.

California Pro Suicide Toll Free Hotline
You’ve heard of toll-free suicide prevention hotlines. Well, now California is on the verge of instituting a suicide facilitation hotline in connection with its new assisted suicide law.

Elizabeth Warren Wants The SEC To Help Her Ban Free Speech
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to prohibit organizations from “saying whatever they want about Washington policy debates,” according to a letter she sent to the agency on Thursday.

“Made Out Of Sand” – A Dramatic Look Inside A Newly Built Chinese Apartment
While real estate is all about “location, location, location,” it appears there are sometimes more prescient factors that any prospective buyer should pay attention to. Amid yet another government-fueled housing bubble, it seems in their haste to fulfil a rapacious demand for property in which to gamble their hard-grafted assets, Chinese construction companies have cut a few corners. As the following stunning video shows, a “newly constructed apartment” crumbles before the owners’ eyes as the “concrete” walls turn to sand…

Five Nights in Pyongyang: Inside the secret brothel of North Korea’s elite
East Asia Tribune journalist Chu Jingyi travelled to North Korea in January 2016, assuming the identity of a Chinese executive looking to source raw materials from the rogue nation. During his six-day visit, Chu was exposed to some of the most closely-guarded secrets of North Korean society, which few foreign observers have experienced.

The New Normal is Abnormal
Marine general James Mattis is credited with saying that “no war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.” The global jihad’s response to the ponderous, pre-announced offensive against ISIS in Syria has long been anticipated: they would counterattack. Yaroslav Trofimov, writing in the Wall Street Journal back in 2015, predicted that the Paris attacks represented the first stages of its riposte in the West.

For America, the Fall of the Roman Empire Is the Best Case Scenario
A lot of people, especially Millennials with degrees in Intersectional Climate Change Gender Studies, may not know it, but there is a way to anticipate what’s going to happen in the future. It’s not perfect, but it helps you make educated guesses about what’s next. It’s called “History,” and apparently no one in our ruling class has ever heard of it.

Gender Theory, Gender Practice
The stubborn reality of human nature is likely to produce results that are unexpected by those who are attempting to turn feminist gender theory – the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix – into public policy.

My Son Is All Boy. And That’s Just Fine With Me.
In many ways I am a girly-girl. I love pretty dresses and going out for afternoon tea. I could sit with a book for hours, snuggled under a blanket, without feeling the need to move. Pink is one of my favorite colors, second only to powder blue. I’m not a huge fan of getting dirty and my relationship with bugs is strained.

The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
It also paints a vivid picture of the tremendous fragility of that experiment and explains why that fragility has been dangerously forgotten—and in doing so it lays out our own responsibility to live those ideals and carry on those freedoms.

Amy Schumer Will Tell You What to Think (And You Must Comply)
What can I say about @AmySchumer? Only what I have said so often before: Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and the kind of “humor” that emerges from a totalitarian death cult is Amy Schumer’s stock in trade.

“Intersectionality,” Explained
Have you been wondering just what the heck “intersectionality” is? Well, okay, just pretend you have. Or pretend that you just now figured out it isn’t the jargon of traffic engineers who try to explain how they always manage to make four-way intersections dysfunctional.

Nintendo Fires @AlisonRapp, Who Hates #GamerGate and Supports Pedophiles
Alison Rapp was employed in public relations for videogame maker Nintendo. This became controversial when it was discovered that in 2012, Rapp wrote a thesis entitled “Speech We Hate: An Argument for the Cessation of International Pressure on Japan to Strengthen Its Anti-Child Pornography Laws.”

Figuring out who the real zealots are in a religious war
A couple of weeks ago, news came out of England that “Muslim staff at a Bradford Council-run care home stopped patients eating pork pies and bacon sandwiches because of their religious beliefs, a report found.” Most of the people denied their pork pies and bacon sandwiches had no recourse: “Wagtail Close has a respite care facility and is home to people living with physical disabilities, sensory loss, brain injury or learning disabilities.” This is not a population with a great deal of market mobility.

No One Cares if You Majored in Lesbian Dance Theory
A “form of Fascism” is being used to intimidate, threaten and silence conservative views on the nation’s college campuses, Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire told MRCTV in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.

A Literary Guide To Our Orwellian Nightmare
We live in an age where the individual has to combat mass society and groupthink, and the individual is losing. Here’s a brief overview of writers whose insights can help you fight back.

Debunking the Myth of “Democratic” Socialism
Here’s how you know people generally disfavor socialism. Proponents of socialism take a parent to child approach by wrapping a distasteful thing (socialism) inside something seen as more palatable (democracy).

The New Commissars
“Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Check Your Monosexual Privilege!
Bird of weird feathers flock together, and when Melissa Fabello decided to engage in a Twitter colloquy with me (of course I mean, not me), she accidentally introduced me to her friend, Australian freelance writer Catherine Bouris, who has degrees from the University of Sydney and UCLA.